{"id":12160,"date":"2025-06-27T21:30:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12160"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:30:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:30:46","slug":"j-m-smucker-plans-to-remove-artificial-colors-from-its-jams-by-the-end-of-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=12160","title":{"rendered":"J.M. Smucker plans to remove artificial colors from its jams by the end of 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"
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J.M. Smucker Co. plans to remove artificial colors<\/a> from its products by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n

Orrville, Ohio-based Smucker said Thursday it will also remove synthetic dyes from foods sold to K-12 schools by the 2026-2027 school year.<\/p>\n

Smucker said the majority of its products \u2013 including its Uncrustables sandwiches \u2013 are already free of synthetic dyes. But some products still have them, including sugar-free jams and ice cream toppings.<\/p>\n

Smucker said some products from Hostess, which it acquired in 2023<\/a>, also contain artificial colors. Twinkies are made with Red 40 and Yellow 5, for example, while Snoballs snack cakes are made with Red 40 Lake, a dye combined with aluminum to keep it from dissolving in water.<\/p>\n

Smucker joins a growing number of big food companies that have announced plans to eliminate artificial dyes. Earlier this week, Nestle<\/a> and Conagra Brands<\/a> \u2014 the parent company of Duncan Hines \u2014 both said they would phase out synthetic dyes. Kraft Heinz and General Mills<\/a> made similar pledges last week.<\/p>\n

The federal government has stepped up its scrutiny of artificial colors in recent months. In January, days before President Donald Trump took office, the U.S. regulators banned the dye<\/a> called Red 3 from the nation\u2019s food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk.<\/p>\n

In April, Trump\u2019s Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary said the agency would take steps to eliminate synthetic dyes<\/a> by the end of 2026, largely by relying on voluntary efforts from the food industry.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

J.M. Smucker Co. plans to remove artificial colors from its products by the end of 2027. Orrville, Ohio-based Smucker said Thursday it will also remove synthetic dyes from foods sold to K-12 schools by the 2026-2027 school year. Smucker said the majority of its products \u2013 including its Uncrustables sandwiches \u2013 are already free of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12162,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12160\/revisions\/12162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}